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UNITED STATES PATENT ErIcE.

ALBERT F. HUNT, JR, AND GEORGE L. WALKER, OF NEWV YORK, N. Y., ASSIGNORS OF ONETI-IIRD TO THOMAS HILL, OF JERSEY CITY, NEXV JERSEY.

BOOTH.

ISPEGIFIOAT'ION forming part of Letters Patent No. 570,403, dated October 2'7, 1896.

Application filed March 4,1896.

T0 aZZ whom, it may concern.-

Be it known that we, ALBERT F. HUNT, Jr., and GEORGE L. WALKER, of New York city, in the county and State of New York, have invented new and useful Improvements in Booths, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

This invention relates to booths for the exhibition of goods or for the sale of the same, and the object is to provide such a booth which may be either stationary or portable and in which there are a number of shelves that may be moved into position for displaying goods when desired and that may be moved-to another position when not in use for displaying or for the sale of goods, thus making the device especially adapted for markets or fairs or similar places where stands are required for the sale of fruits, vegetables, or any kind of merchandise, and at the close .of the market or fair the whole or any part of the contents of a stand or stands may be elevated with the stand or stands, leaving the space underneath clear from encumbrances.

The invention comprises standards or columns upon which are mounted a series of shelves, and counterbalancing means for elevating said shelves on the standards or columns.

The invention further consists in the novel construction and arrangement of parts, as will be hereinafter specified, and particularly pointed out in the appended claims.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which similar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the views.

Figure 1 is an end elevation of a booth embodying our invention with certain parts broken away to more clearly show other parts. Fig. 2 is a section of a portion thereof. Fig. 3 is a side elevation of a portion thereof. Fig. at is an elevation showing a modified form of booth. Fig. 5 is a section on the line 5 5 of Fig. 4:. Fig. 6 is a side elevation of the booth illustrated in Fig. 1, and Fig, 7 is a section substantiallyon the line 7 7 of Fig. 3.

Referring first to the example of our improvement shown in Figs. 1, 2, 3, 6, and 7, A designates columns made of suitable metal,

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hollow from end to end, and supporting at their upper ends a roof A, which is here shown as pitched in opposite directions, with the columns engaging the central portion or ridge of the roof. It is to be understood, however, that the columns may be located along the edges of the roof without departing from the spirit of our invention.

Supported by and movable vertically with relation to the columns are plates A having outwardly-extended shelves a, supported on suitable brackets secured to the plates, and these shelves may be of different widths, as clearly illustrated in Fig. 1, or they may be of equal width. The ends of the plates A engage between guideways a, formed on the inner side of adjacent columns A, and these plates are engaged by ropes or similar flexible connections a which extend over pulleys a in the upper portions of the columns, and the ends of these flexible connections with the columns are attached to counterbalanceweights to.

By this construction it will be seen that the whole system of shelving may be elevated to the upper portions of the columns within the apex of the roof, as indicated by dotted lines in Fig. 1, and of course it is preferable with a roof of the shape shown in Fig. 1 that the shelves be of different widths, so as to engage closely within the apex of the roof,which will in a measure form a cover to prevent the entrance of dirt and dust. When in this elevated position, the shelves are of course wholly clear from the ground, so that the space beneath the roof may be utilized for other purposes.

In the example of our improvement shown in Fig. 4 we have illustrated a single central column B, supporting a hexagonal roof B, and movable vertically on this central column is a sleeve 17, supporting shelves Z) of a shape similar to that of the roof, and from the sleeve b flexible connections b extend over pulleys b arranged in the upper portion of the column B, and the ends of these flexible connections 11 within the column engage with a counterbalance-weight b In both examples of our improvement the roofs may preferably be made of corrugated iron, and of course may be made as ornamental as desired. e have shown the structures as mounted on solid foundations, but it is to be understood that they can be otherwise supported, so as to render them portable or movable from place to place.

While the devices described and shown are especially adapted for markets and fairs and the like, it will be seen that the covered columns form a booth under which a restaurant or otherbusiness maybe conducted, or it may be utilized as a tent by slight modifications of construction and by adding curtains or the like.

Having thus described our invention, we claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent- 1. A booth comprising hollow columns, a roof supported thereon, plates movable vertically on said columns, weights movable in the columns flexible connections between the weights and plates, and shelves on the plates, the said shelves being of varying widths and conforming substantially to the pitch of the 

